Improvement in attaching cork-retaining bails to bottles



UNITED. STATES PATENT OEEICE.`

LUGIEN E. ELANDEEs, 0E PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPRovEMENT iN ATTACHING coRK-RETAlNlNG BAlLs To-oT'i-LESL` Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,886, dated June 17, 1873 application filed October 29, 1872. A

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUoLEN B. FLANnERs, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented an ImprovementV in Attaching Cork-Retainin g Bails to Bottles, of which the following is a specification:

The object ot' my invention is the attachment of the cork-retaining bails of bottles to the latter without the aid of the usual fastenings; and this object I attain by embedding the enlarged ends a of the bail A in the glass during the formation of the bottle, as shown in the vertical section, Fig. 1. The bail is composed of Wire, and is bent on the top, Where it bears on the cork B in the same manner as the ordinary bails commonly used in connection with bott-les for containing aerated and eft'ervescing liquids; but instead of hinging the legs e e of the bail to the neck of the bottle by means of Wire in the usual manner,

I form enlargements at the bent'iends of the A The combination, with a bottle, of a corkf retaining bail having enlarged ends embedded in the glass, as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence' of two subscribing Witnesses.

-L. B. FLANDERS.

Witnesses:

WM. A. STEEL, HUBERT HowsoN. 

